this is a real guarantee for the future when the taliban would try to return. in the case of president karzai, maybe in the beginning that was useful, but on the lon run to have a foundaon of power based on foreign money or intelligence money is shaky. melissa: yeah. and that's really the problem is that when it's unrestricted and when it's not subject to any sort of controls and it's this hush money cash that no one's following, who is deciding who is the right person to receive it? who decides who deserves the tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, that this is the best choice to give to this person rather than to this person in the me country? how do you even decide in. >> look, anything that goes outside the normal principles and parameters oforeign aid that is us thed in congress -- discussed in congress and negotiated with the administration, and then it goes nickel and dime and everything is known. outside that in the realm of con front talkings, the french used to call it deny confrontation, meaning blackmun you don't know where it's going, there must be